BRADFORD
- WAR MEMORIAL

TO
THE IMMORTAL
HONOUR OF THE MEN
AND WOMEN OF THE
CITY OF BRADFORD
WHO SERVED THEIR
KING AND EMPIRE
1914 - 1918

Their
name liveth for evermore

The
war memorial was unveiled Saturday 1st July 1922. The monument was designed
by Walter Williamson the City Architect and is in the form of a cenotaph
built from locally quarried stone from Bolton Woods Quarry. High on the
front, the cross symbolises 'sacrifice', and a wreath containing the words
'Pro Patri Mori' (they died for their country) symbolises 'grief'. Two
bronze figures of a soldier and a sailor are realistically represented,
lunging forward with their rifles. The monument was unveiled on the 6th
anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme when the Bradford
'Pals' Battalion of the West Yorkshire egiment suffered massive and severe
casualties. The roll of honour contained 37,000 names, an astounding figure
when it is realised that the crowd attending the unveiling numbered 40,000,
just 3,000 more than the men listed. Lieutenant Colonel Alderman Anthony
Gadie, who served in France and was a former Lord Mayor of Bradford, carried
out the official commemoration, with a dedication read by the Vicar of
Bradford, Archdeacon W. Stanton Jones.

No
transcription of names available at present - not a light task this memorial.